Day: April 25, 2021

To Tomato Soup

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Form: Raven’s Rovi Sonnet 108

In the storm of rapid cycling and tears
It is the red fruit brings comfort to me
With warmth to my heart and soothing my fears
In my crockpot this elixir is born
Infusing stock and embracing the veg
To comfort a man so tattered and torn
His existence teeters on the thin edge
In his kitchen he can let it all go
Releasing his creative passion free
With tomato soup and a fresh bread wedge
Maybe baking a cake before the dawn
But tomato soup that begins the flow
Of healing and love when all else says no

©JGFarmer2021

Hakuna Matata by Tim Rice

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Hakuna Matata
1995
Film and TV

Tim Rice
Musicals
Born: 10 November 1944, Buckinghamshire, UK
Nationality: English

Rice is a lyricist and author, best known for his collaborations with Andrew Lloyd Webber, with whom he co-wrote musical shows including Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and Jesus Christ Superstar; with Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson of ABBA, with whom wrote Chess; and with Disney on Aladdin and The Lion King

Keats’ Sonnet Notes

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Created by John Keats
Structure: Four triplets and a couplet
Meter: Decasyllabic or pentameter
Schema: abc abd cab cde de

Example

Paper Sheet by Jez Farmer

A paper sheet; untouched and lily white
An illusion waiting for ink to be born
Of poet’s dreams in sweet rhythm and rhyme
That voices passion for love’s own delight.
The ancient nib in poet’s hand is worn
By words that flow inside the deepest thought
And echo sounds of a bamboo wind chime
From the muse’s scented garden each night.
And though my thoughts of you maybe forlorn
When you are not with me in space and time
I have but words to speak of love and court
Your hand; and plead that you’ll take me as thine
A humble poet seeks your heart’s consort
By pen and ink that form poetic line

Delta Theta by Morris Louis

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Delta Theta
1961
Colour Field Painting
Acrylic on canvas
The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. USA

A classic work, Delta Theta is from Louis’ Unfurled series, which are among the most renowned works by the artist. Louis folded the massive canvas before pouring thinned acrylic paint down its surface. The colour, concentrated in the lower corners of the canvas leaves the central area of Delta Theta untreated. By focusing on the corners rather than the centre, Louis took a new approach to pictorial space.

Morris Louis
Colour Field Painting, Post-Painterly Abstraction, Washington Colour School
Born: 28 November 1912, Maryland, USA
Nationality: American
Died: 7 September 1962, Washington DC, USA

Louis was one of the leading artists in Colour Field painting, along with his contemporaries Kenneth Noland and Helen Frankenthaler. In a short prolific career Louis continually experimented with method and medium, manipulating large canvases in creative wats to control the flow and stain of paint. His maturity of style, characterized by layered veils and rivulets of poured acrylic paint on untreated canvases, make his paintings among the most iconic works of Colour Field painting.

Beech Tree by Achille-Etna Michallon

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Beech Tree
1815
Romanticism
Oil on canvas
The Metropolitan Museum of Art and, New York, USA

Michallon first exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1812 when he was sixteen and was awarded the inaugural Prix de Rome in the historical landscape painting category in 1817. This study dates between those two dated to when the artist was studying under Jean Victor Bertin and Michallon was instructed to paint individual trees.

Achille-Etna Michallon
Romanticism
Born: 22 October 1796, Paris, France
Nationality: French
Died: 24 September 1822, Paris, France

Michallon was a prodigiously talented artist who tragically died at the very young age of 25. He was the son of a sculptor and studied under Jacques-Louis David and Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes. In 1817, he won the Prix de Rome for landscape painting. He studied in Italy for two years but died of pneumonia before he could develop what he had learned